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Account of the USS Canopus written by Capt. E. L. Sackett

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  • THE CANOPUS By Captain E.L. Sackett, U,S,N. CHAPTER I. A legs likely c&aditat© than the C&nopus for the role of heroine in & tale of adventure could hardly be imagined* She was no longer young, and had never been particularly dashing, but her partisans were always ready to ascribe a certain majesty to her appearance. Undeniably, she waddled like a duck, as was po nted out in many a good-natured jibe, but that wfis only natural in a middle-aged, motherly type, and she was truly aamma-san* to her brood of submarines, which used t forage with her from the Philllppines to the China coast and back again each year. Built in 1921 to be a ecmMnatlon freight and passenger carrier for th© Grace Line, .ghe was shortly taken over by the Navy, • to a sub marine tender. She was given extensive machine shops, foundsies and storerooms to provide for the material needs of the wpib-boats*, cabins and living spaces for the oomfetft of their crews when off cuty, sxd a few guns a® a concession to the fact that she was now a man-of-war# In 192fi the Canopus escorted a division of six M8* type submarines of the vantage of World l&r I t© the China Station. This isposiag force, before th© clouds df World WJT II gathered on the horizon, carried a large share of the burden of showing the Stars and S.ripeg in Asiatic ports, much of the time in the midst of *incidents" brought on by the spread of the Hew Order* Looking back, it is hard to decide j st when war with Jafan became inevitable, Perhpas the background was laid when Japan was given control of th© Mandated Islands after World War I, T® be sure, these islands, which lay across American life lines to the Philippines, wsre not supposed to be fortified, but rb© Navy, at le t, never had any illusions on that soore. Throughout the service, there was a general feeling that eventually the J»pa,ies© would become open enemies, and that a treacherous blow would i e the signal for opening hostilities. We in the Orient were only surprised that this blow landed first at Pearl Harbor, instedd of'on the Asiatic ships, which comparatively "had their necks out" whenever they visited^China ports, W© now know that the Japs^wanted bigger game while the advantage of surprise was still in.their hands, and protably felt that they eould patfe off" the Asiatic.Fleet anyhow,at their leisure.' : Bat'-Chins' sailers had :.eon-treated to a war of-nerves for many yearst and had been mad©'-to' feel'that they were living on borrowed time,7 las. 194© things looked so lad that their fas'lies had been sent^back to the States, in spite of their vehement protests, be it said, , Those Navy wives were an intrepid lot, and- were accustomed to jutting up with such hardships and dangers in following their--men fr m port to port, that it took something more than a 11 lie Jspanose menace to make them leave th© strange faeination of th© Orient voluntarily* It had always been expected that th© Caaapus, along with other slow aixoioaru spoils' tje destpner temder B'aok HfcWkj the seaplane tender Langl«yi and the tanker Pecos, would, if possible, b© hurried out to safer spots further south when war became imminent, on the basic assumption that the Philippines
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